Introduction

NEC manufacture some of the best monitors for imaging work available today, and these monitors offer quality and features that other brands simply can't compare with despite their similar pricing. A more detailed article follows but to summarise:

NEC PA Series Monitors

If you want the best of the best from NEC and indeed quite possibly the best colour accurate monitors available at time of writing (May 2010), the NEC PA Series line of monitors is what you're after.

Four critical features competing
monitors (other than perhaps Eizo!) simply don't have (or pretend to
have, or have only in low quality!):

High Bit Depth Colour LUTs (14 Bit '3D' LUTs - these are best in class LUTs at time of writing) - this means there is a high
quality video engine built into the back of the monitor. When you make
any adjustment on this monitor, such as to whitepoint or gamma, these
adjustments are done with high bit depth mathematics. Just like in
Photoshop, more bits = more quality - and specifically smoothness. In
practice what this means is you gain flexibility without compromising
quality. You can calibrate to appropriate settings for paper simulation
without inducing the artifacts that
typical LCDs get when you calibrate them - such as banding in
your gradients. These LUTs are critical for excellent performance with
colour on LCD monitors.

10 Bit Input - these monitors can accept the new 10 bit outputs of high end graphics cards, meaning the signal transmission into these monitors is fundamentally higher quality (each channel having 1024 instead of 256 discrete signals). This means better, smoother colour and a signal more robust under extensive manipulation - such as he manipulation involved in doing gamut emulation in the monitor itself.

Uniformity
Compensation - Before leaving the factory, each screen is
individually measured and then tuned across the entire display,
resulting in a remarkably uniform display of colour and brightness across the
entire screen (a traditional weakness of LCD screens).

Overdrive Circuit For Video - Excellent
video performance without ghosting on all models thanks to an
integrated overdrive circuit.

All
The Inputs You Need - Modern digital inputs including 10 bit Display Port,
DVI-D (2) and VGA
15-pin D-sub

And More!
- Great design, both of the monitor itself AND the monitor controls and
on screen display, make for easy adjustments. Integrated features for
screen saver, zoom mode, self diagnosis of issues, automatic wake and
sleep timing etc - these monitors have it all!